Usually means: Sound made by a cat.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. mew: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mew, mew: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mew, mew, mew: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mew: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mew: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mew, mew: Wordnik
  7. mew: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mew, mew: Wiktionary
  9. mew: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mew: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mew: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mew, mew: Dictionary.com
  13. mew (n.1), mew (n.2), mew (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Mew (band), Mew (disambiguation), Mew (software), Mew: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Mew: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. mew: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. mew: Rhymezone
  18. mew: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. mew: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. mew: Free Dictionary
  21. mew: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. mew: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. mew: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MEW: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  2. mew: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mew: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mew: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MEW: Acronym Finder
  2. MEW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic, poetic, dialectal) A gull, seagull.
noun:  (obsolete) A prison, or other place of confinement.
noun:  (obsolete) A hiding place; a secret store or den.
noun:  (obsolete) A breeding-cage for birds.
noun:  (falconry) A cage for hawks, especially while moulting.
noun:  (falconry, in the plural) A building or set of buildings where moulting birds are kept.
verb:  (archaic) To shut away, confine, lock up.
verb:  (of a bird) To moult.
verb:  (of a bird, obsolete) To cause to moult.
verb:  (of a deer, obsolete) To shed antlers.
noun:  The crying sound of a cat; a meow, especially of a kitten.
noun:  The crying sound of a gull or buzzard.
noun:  (obsolete) An exclamation of disapproval; a boo.
verb:  (of a cat, especially of a kitten) To meow.
verb:  (of a gull or buzzard) To make its cry.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To flatten one's tongue against the roof of the mouth, with the aim of improving jaw and facial structure.
noun:  A surname.

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